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And here are the numbers. You are getting played - illegal immigration is not the root issue here.

[size=40]ESOL/FARM &lt;&gt; Illegal[/size]
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Regardless of how much you yell, you're like an ostrich putting your head in the sand.  While ESOL/FARM &lt;&gt; Illegal, the facts remain that even half of those 83K students being illegals is tapping dwindling school resources to support them.  Providing additional teachers and resources to teach 40K illegal immigrant students is taking millions of dollars of resources for teacher salaries, teaching materials from legal immigrants and citizen children.  The ones who will suffer the most are the legal immigrants who are forced to share ESOL resources with illegal immigrant children.  The legal immigrant children now have extremely overpopulated classes and less individual attention because teachers don't have the time to spend as much time with each student when their class sizes are up to 50% larger.   If you were to prohibit illegal immigrant children from using school resources, you could better support your legal immigrant population, teaching them English and getting them up to speed faster for integration into regular classes.  The class sizes would shrink, there would be more money to provide better support for the ESOL population that remained.  There would be more money for FARM support per child, so that there would be better support the low income legal residents of the county.  And there would be more money to provide additional benefits to all students throughout the county.

This isn't about ESOL/FARMS.  Isn't about using the resources of the county to better support legal citizens and residents including legal immigrants instead of supporting illegal immigrants.[/quote]

Almost every PP complained that ESOL/FARMS students were detrimental to their schools.

You can try to chip away at the perceived issue schools but you will not really fix anything. The issue is that the low-income housing is all concentrated in pockets rather than being spread out more evenly across the area. If the schools across the area reflected the area demographics then many more schools would be thriving. Unfortunately, there is no easy solution for this. Rich Bs in McLean (who pretend to be accountants) don't want affordable housing near them and would fight like crazy to keep it out.

But focusing on "illegal immigration" is a red herring. Rs are tugging on xenophobe strings to get into office, but won't actually "fix" anything... 
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